To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cimxa Dany News SwmIn the Shanghai Telephone Company's application for adjustment telephone tariffs we And the fol "nother, cases, where telephone rmetage rates have, been "adopted of service the volume tow 0 per cent, and then recovered fora point where the average usage of the. exceptional. high calling rate, ow recorded in' Shanghai, it seems Feasonable to, Osage on bus Ing two'or three year period following the "introduction' of "the. proposed message rales will be around 80 er Sept of the present vouumen"
"This reduction will come of ests 20 subscribers through adoption by sub at methods of controling fneldental usage: which "they. have. Incentive. to. apply. while unrestricted lage Is allowed by the Company.
In arriving at this estimate of 50 per" cent. reduction. the Telephone! Company apparently did not take into consideration that part of Shangha's high calling vote {s due to. resident cals, the Shanghai. family, including servants, being much larger than the families'of other parts of the world where residential phones are used. Therefore. to" the extent that. the residential telephones. contribute to {his high calling rate, the call. per business "telephone. will not decline, Also as business houses restrict. the lise of their telephones other. Arms wil be foreed to have service of their own oF go to pay stations, all making additional revenue for the Telephone! Company, which has not been taken Into recount In this application, seems as though it would be} ifteult for the Telephone Company to fustity "the baste for this Increase, rinely, a reduction of 60 per cent. In calls per business telephone, Shanghai, Feb, 2
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